On 12/14/23 11:16 AM, ScottW wrote:
On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 5:50:46 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
On 12/13/23 10:33 AM, ScottW wrote:
but the simple fact that the court has agreed to hear the challenge shows there may be something to it.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4357873-supreme-court-will-hear-challenge-to-jan-6-obstruction-charge/
Unless the court means to overturn a lower court that thinks there's
something to it.
Pehaps you missed as you often do, the part where an appeals court had already upheld DoJs abuse of power.
Charging obstruction is not an abuse of power.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-weigh-challenge-jan-6-obstruction-charge-2023-12-13/
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, granted Fischer's
pretrial motion to dismiss his obstruction charges, ruling that the
statute applied only in cases in which a defendant had taken "some
action with respect to a document, record or other object."
Federal prosecutors appealed that ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit. A divided three-judge panel on the
D.C. Circuit in April reversed Nichols' ruling, saying the statute was
not limited to documents and records, but instead "applies to all forms
of corrupt obstruction of an official proceeding."
End quote.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)